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Aren't they just. There is hope out there, people. Too late for London tickets, sadly, but they are currently doing Euro festivals including Download.

There are still podium positions to be decided.

I don't have a clue who half of them are.

I will be entering a team in due course.

Wishing you all the best, Lafaucheuse. I do hope that you won't be meeting your namesake for a very long time.

Leslie Phillips

I always liked this one more than, you know, their other one.

Yes, i must say I like much of that piece (I'm not going to call it a poem) although it does go on a bit too long.

Any other old farts remember this one?

TL;DR

Obit in English https://www.thelocal.se/20180528/swedens-former-prime-minister-dies-aged-ola-ullsten

Dozois reportedly dead already: https://twitter.com/MichaelSwanwick/status/1000849132230184961 I only know of him as an anthologist. He is a collaborator with George R.R. Martin on short story collections.

Good one

Is it a literary author or a popular author?

I was about 10 ft away from Ronnie at one point on Friday night, and while he looks as cadaverous as ever he was running around like a spring lamb. Some excellent photos of him and the other wrinklies on this page, scroll down past the reviews.

Eh? Feeding the birds was always a popular pastime when I was a child, whether it was ducks on the pond, city pigeons or a bird table in the garden. Mind you, they tell us now that bread isn't very good for birds.

As Moses explains in the article linked by charon, Woody Allen is not in any sense her dad. Neither biological, adoptive, nor step. Mia was married to Andre Previn when she adopted Soon-Yi.

Damn, I hadn't visited Mumsnet for at least a couple of weeks. I was doing so well. Those threads that get picked up by the tabloids. How many do you reckon are actually started by tabloid hacks? Or even by Mumsnet staff for the publicity?

Dunno. Wiki says "Kaeli-Shea Farrow, later known as Quincy Maureen Farrow" so perhaps she chose it herself.